Headlight bulb question - appears intact doesn't work

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Drivers side bulb works
Passenger out

Pulled both bulbs, and both appear to be intact

Didn't scrape or sand contact, but no apparent corrosion

Any board experience with problem like this?

S70 1998
 
squirrely said:
Drivers side bulb works
Passenger out

Pulled both bulbs, and both appear to be intact

Didn't scrape or sand contact, but no apparent corrosion

Any board experience with problem like this?

S70 1998
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Try swapping them from side to side. The original type bulbs had heat
related problems, you can get new sockets that use the old 1157 type
bulbs for free from the dealer.

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Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

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Mike said:
Try swapping them from side to side. The original type bulbs had heat
related problems, you can get new sockets that use the old 1157 type
bulbs for free from the dealer.
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Oops, nothing like reading properly - the advice I gave was for the turn
signals.
Headlight bulbs sometimes fail and the filament appears intact. Does
the high beam on that side work? You can also swap bulbs from high beam
to low beam, they're the same. Each low beam uses a different wire from
the headlight relay, that's the next thing to check.

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Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

NOTE: new address!!
Replace tt with t (twice!) and remove parentheses to email me directly.
(But I check the newsgroup more often than this email address.)
 
Try switching bulbs from each side if the bulb that is out still does not
work then you have a bad bulb change both of them

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The official count is 343, but there was also a volunteer who lost his life
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as I live,
nor should any American.
"Mow Green"
 
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